You like my hair? I haven't washed it in days! New comedy video shows just how bad women are at accepting compliments

Whether they're being praised on a new hair cut, coat or career, it is widely known that women struggle to accept compliments.

And now, a new video created by Comedy Central’s Amy Schumer, highlights just how bad this female trait is.

'I love your coat!' says one woman in the skit, which was filmed outside Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan. 'Oh, I paid like $2 for it. It’s probably made of old Burger King crowns. I look like a whore locked out of her apartment,' replies the friend.

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Oh please, stop! Created by Comedy Central's Amy Schumer, a new video features a group of New York women dishing out meaningful compliments, which are brushed off with self-loathing comments

The video continues as the group of women chatter and dish out meaningful compliments as the conversation progresses.

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Ms Schumer herself, after being praised for her lean figure, says she is so fat she 'sleeps standing up in a field' like a cow.

'This is soooo true,' wrote one female commenter on the YouTube video which has been viewed 800,000 times. 'I can’t remember the last time I simply said thank you after another girl gave me a﻿ compliment. I always throw something negative in there.'

Me, skinny? No!: Ms Schumer herself (left) after being praised for her lean figure, says she is so fat she 'sleeps standing up in a field' like a cow

Just say thank you: One female commenter on the YouTube video which has been viewed 800,000 times, said, 'I can't remember the last time I simply said thank you after another girl gave me a compliment'

So why do women often turn to an automatic self-loathing default?

Renee Engeln, a psychology professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, told Today.comthat mixed messages women receive about desirable or acceptable behaviors are to blame.

'[We’re told] love yourself, but not too much. Be confident, but practice a style of humility this culture never requires of men,' she explains.

'Believe in yourself, but never admit it out loud, lest you make another woman who doesn’t feel good about herself feel bad.

'If you’re raised to think it’s arrogant to ever say something positive about yourself, it makes it hard to accept a compliment.'

Unfortunately, society today continues to see women who do acknowledge their worth, as arrogant and unfeminine; while men aren't held to such standards.

Ms Engeln praised the video, labeling it a 'message from women to women that says "Let’s stop this nonsense."'

'One of the best things we can model for girls and young women is how to accept a compliment with tact and grace,' she said.